Los Angeles Southwest College

CLIENT OBJECTIVES

The Los Angeles Community College district needed a design-assist contractor to coordinate and install all the mechanical and plumbing systems for a new student center, maintenance and operations building, security facility, outdoor stadium, parking structure, and field house.

VALUE DELIVERED

UMEC led the BIM (Building Information Modeling) process to facilitate installation coordination between all trades. UMEC’s scope included all mechanical and plumbing system for the following: a 51,600 sf student center, 17,000 sf maintenance and operations building, and 18,100 sf field house, all of which are LEED© certified. There is also a 4,100 sf security facility; a 4,000 seat outdoor stadium and a 500-car, 4-level parking structure.

SCOPE OF SERVICES

UMEC was the Design/Build prime contractor for this new 1,400 ton central plant at City College downtown. This project follows an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach that includes BIM design and coordination. This project was DSA reviewed/approved and the design incorporated LEED items, but was not certified.

SOLUTIONS

UMEC led the BIM (Building Information Modeling) process to facilitate installation coordination between all trades. UMEC’s scope included all mechanical and plumbing system for the following: a 51,600 sf student center, 17,000 sf maintenance and operations building, and 18,100 sf field house, all of which are LEED© certified. There is also a 4,100 sf security facility; a 4,000 seat outdoor stadium and a 500-car, 4-level parking structure.

BACKGROUND

The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California, and some of its neighboring cities. Its headquarters are in Downtown Los Angeles. Over the past seventy-seven years, LACCD has served as educator to more than three million students. In addition to typical college-aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. Indeed, over half of all LACCD students are older than 25 years of age, and more than a quarter are 35 or older. LACCD educates almost three times as many Latino students and nearly four times as many African-American students as all of the University of California campuses combined.